[sudo-users] sudo very slow

[Justin Alcorn]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Russell Van Tassell <
russell+sudo-users at loosenut.com <russell%2Bsudo-users at loosenut.com>> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:45:23PM -0400, Justin Alcorn wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > sudo takes a long time.  strace sudo su -  shows me delays in what looks
> > like trying to send a log entry.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > As you can see, it took more than a minute.   Sometimes it is much
> longer.
> >
> > Exiting from the sudo shell also is delayed, as is logging on via SSH.
> >
> > I've looked around thinking it's a reverse DNS, but I can do a reverse
> > lookup and get a PTR record.
> >
> > Ideas?
>
> Try turning off DNS in your sudoers file to see if the problem goes
> away... between that and and "email" setting, that's generally been
> my experiences/observations where the delay happens with sudo...
>

The only documentation about DNS in the sudoers file is the fqdn directive,
which is off.  I can't find anything about email int he documentation for
sudoers.

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Justin B. Alcorn